The Aesop for Children, The Serpent and the Eagle, sentence 1
A Serpent had succeeded in surprising an Eagle and had wrapped himself around the Eagle's neck.
What happens: succeed, surprise, wrap · To what, where: Serpent, Eagle, neck
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Serpent and the Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Serpent | det |
| 2 | Serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 succeeded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 succeeded | aux |
| 4 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 6 surprising | mark |
| 6 | surprising | surprise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 succeeded | advcl |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Eagle | det |
| 8 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 surprising | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wrapped | cc |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 wrapped | aux |
| 11 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 succeeded | conj |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 wrapped | obj |
| 13 | around | around | ADP | _ | 17 neck | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Eagle | det |
| 15 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 neck | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Eagle | case |
| 17 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wrapped | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 succeeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeed | past · perfect · passive | a Serpent | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | surprise | gerund | a Eagle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eagle=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | wrap | past · perfect | Eagle | the Eagle's neck | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme around neck=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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